China Tightens Limits on Imported Shows on TV

BEIJING (AP) -- China's TV governing body has told broadcastersthey will be limited in the number of imported series they canshow.

The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television said lateMonday that under the new rules, no foreign TV series may be shownduring the prime-time hours of 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. and thatoverseas-produced shows can take up no more than 25 percent of thetotal broadcast time each day.

The rules also say that domestic channels will not be allowed toshow too much programming from any one country or region.

The move comes in a politically sensitive year for China, with achange in leadership planned, and after President Hu Jintao saidthe Communist Party needs to get more control over Chinese culture.

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